Strategic Education Research Partnership Institute
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
THE STRATEGIC EDUCATION RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP GENERATES INNOVATIVE, SCALABLE SOLUTIONS TO OUR SCHOOLS' MOST PRESSING PROBLEMS THROUGH SUSTAINED COLLABORATIONS AMONG RESEARCHERS, PRACTITIONERS, AND DESIGNERS. WE WORK TO INCREASE EQUITY, IMPROVE STUDENT LEARNING, AND GIVE TEACHERS AND STUDENTS GREATER AGENCY.
- Income
- $7.1 million
- Spending
- $4.3 million
- Spent on programs
- 88%
- Reserves
- 4.5 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- government grants, 57%
- Employees
- 16
- Volunteers
- 12
- Highest pay
- $377,712, executive di
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
Good: 85 out of 100. Higher than 64% of charities in its peer group (science, $1m to $10m).
Reserves
20 of 35Spendable reserves would cover 4.5 months of spending.
Debt
20 of 20It owes 4% of what it owns.
Living within its means
15 of 15Income exceeded spending by 39% of income.
Income trend
15 of 15Income rose 109% on the year before.
Spending floor
15 of 1588% of spending went to programs and raising each dollar of donations cost 0 cents.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
Strong: 100 out of 100. Higher than 68% of charities in its peer group (science, $1m to $10m).
Independent board
25 of 2511 of 11 voting board members are independent.
Conflict of interest policy
15 of 15Has a written conflict of interest policy.
Whistleblower policy
8 of 8Has a written whistleblower policy.
Record keeping policy
7 of 7Has a written policy on keeping and destroying records.
Board minutes
5 of 5Keeps minutes of board meetings.
Board sees the tax return
10 of 10Gave the board a copy of this return before filing it.
Pay set independently
5 of 5Sets its chief executive's pay through independent review and comparison.
Independent check of accounts
15 of 15Its accounts were audited by an independent accountant.
No reported misuse
10 of 10Reports no diversion of assets, excess benefits or loans to insiders.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (5)
- $2.5 million spent. SCALING STUDENTS' SUCCESS WITH STARI: EXPANDING ELIGIBILITY, SUPPORT, AND SPREAD SERP WAS AWARDED A FIVE-YEAR, 15-MILLION EDUCATION INNOVATION AND RESEARCH (EIR) EXPANSION-PHASE GRANT STARTING IN JANUARY 2023 TO BUILD THE CAPACITY TO SCALE THE STRATEGIC ADOLESCENT READING INTERVENTION (STARI). THIS GRANT WILL SUPPORT THE PROGRAM'S ADOPTION IN FOUR STATES IN DIFFERENT REGIONS OF THE COUNTRY, AND TO STUDY ITS EFFECTIVENESS WITH THESE DIFFERENT POPULATIONS. THE GOALS FOR THE PROJECT ARE: 1. TO IMPROVE THE READING SKILLS OF MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS, DEMONSTRATING EFFECTS OF STARI AS COMPARED TO BUSINESS-AS-USUAL ON READING BEHAVIORS, PROXIMAL READING SKILLS (READBASIX), PROGRESS TOWARD MEETING GRADE-LEVEL STANDARDS (STATE TESTS), AND LEADING INDICATORS OF DISTAL OUTCOMES (COURSE PASS RATES). 2. TO BUILD TEACHER CAPACITY FOR EFFECTIVE LITERACY INSTRUCTION AND TO MEASURE THE IMPACT OF STARI PROFESSIONAL LEARNING ON TEACHERS' KNOWLEDGE AND INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICE. 3. TO DETERMINE FOR WHOM AND UNDER WHAT CONDITIONS STARI IS MOST EFFECTIVE BY EXAMINING OUTCOMES FOR SUBGROUPS (STUDENTS READING FAR BELOW GRADE LEVEL, STUDENTS WITH IEPS, ENGLISH LEARNERS). 4. TO CREATE AN AFFORDABLE, SUSTAINABLE PACKAGE OF SUPPORTS FOR SCHOOLS THATCHOOSE TO IMPLEMENT STARI OUTSIDE OF A GRANT-FUNDED RESEARCH STUDY. 5. TO DISSEMINATE RESULTS AND EXPAND THE USE OF STARI NATIONWIDE. SCALING STUDENTS' SUCCESS WITH STARI: EXPANDING ELIGIBILITY, SUPPORT, AND SPREAD SERP WAS AWARDED A FIVE-YEAR, 15-MILLION EDUCATION INNOVATION AND RESEARCH (EIR) EXPANSION-PHASE GRANT STARTING IN JANUARY 2023 TO BUILD THE CAPACITY TO SCALE THE STRATEGIC ADOLESCENT READING INTERVENTION (STARI). THIS GRANT WILL SUPPORT THE PROGRAM'S ADOPTION IN FOUR STATES IN DIFFERENT REGIONS OF THE COUNTRY, AND TO STUDY ITS EFFECTIVENESS WITH THESE DIFFERENT POPULATIONS. THE GOALS FOR THE PROJECT ARE: 1. TO IMPROVE THE READING SKILLS OF MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS, DEMONSTRATING EFFECTS OF STARI AS COMPARED TO BUSINESS-AS-USUAL ON READING BEHAVIORS, PROXIMAL READING SKILLS (READBASIX), PROGRESS TOWARD MEETING GRADE-LEVEL STANDARDS (STATE TESTS), AND LEADING INDICATORS OF DISTAL OUTCOMES (COURSE PASS RATES). 2. TO BUILD TEACHER CAPACITY FOR EFFECTIVE LITERACY INSTRUCTION AND TO MEASURE THE IMPACT OF STARI PROFESSIONAL LEARNING ON TEACHERS' KNOWLEDGE AND INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICE. 3. TO DETERMINE FOR WHOM AND UNDER WHAT CONDITIONS STARI IS MOST EFFECTIVE BY EXAMINING OUTCOMES FOR SUBGROUPS (STUDENTS READING FAR BELOW GRADE LEVEL, STUDENTS WITH IEPS, ENGLISH LEARNERS). 4. TO CREATE AN AFFORDABLE, SUSTAINABLE PACKAGE OF SUPPORTS FOR SCHOOLS THATCHOOSE TO IMPLEMENT STARI OUTSIDE OF A GRANT-FUNDED RESEARCH STUDY. 5. TO DISSEMINATE RESULTS AND EXPAND THE USE OF STARI NATIONWIDE.
- $380,456 spent. SUSTAINING LITERACY PRACTICES OVER TIME: CODIFYING KNOWLEDGE THROUGH MICRO-CREDENTIALING SERP RECEIVED A FOUR-YEAR, TWO-MILLION-DOLLAR GRANT FROM IES TO PARTNER WITH THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS (DCPS), AND A RESEARCH TEAM FROM HARVARD AND THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND TO DEVELOP AND TEST AN INTERVENTION CONSISTING OF TWO MICRO-CREDENTIAL COURSES. THE FIRST COURSE WILL TARGET EFFECTIVE USE OF STUDENT TIME IN LITERACY CENTERS, A STRUCTURE FOR INSTRUCTION USED IN THE LARGE MAJORITY OF K-2 CLASSROOMS. THE SECOND COURSE WILL TARGET THE USE OF ACADEMICALLY PRODUCTIVE TALK (APT), AN INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICE THAT SUPPORTS DEEP READING COMPREHENSION AND STUDENT ENGAGEMENT BUT IS NOT WIDELY USED. BOTH COURSES ARE BEING DEVELOPED IN COLLABORATION WITH DCPS LITERACY LEADERS. DCPS K-2 CLASSROOMS FOOTAGE IS BEING COLLECTED AND WILL BE INCORPORATED INTO INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS FEATURING RESEARCHERS AND DCPS LITERACY LEADERS. COURSE CONTENT WILL BE REVISED IN RESPONSE TO FEEDBACK FROM TEACHERS IN USABILITY STUDIES CONDUCTED THROUGH AN ITERATIVE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS. SCHOOLS WILL BE RANDOMLY ASSIGNED TO PARTICIPATE IN EACH OF THE COURSES IN YEAR 3 OF THE STUDY. ELIGIBLE TEACHERS IN THE TREATMENT SCHOOLS WILL INCLUDE THOSE IN GRADES K-2 WHO ARE IN THEIR FIRST THREE YEARS OF TEACHING, AND THOSE WHO ARE IN WARNING STATUS ON THEIR TEACHER EVALUATION. THE IMPACT OF THE COURSES ON TEACHERS' PRACTICE AND STUDENT LEARNING WILL BE EVALUATED. SUSTAINING LITERACY PRACTICES OVER TIME: CODIFYING KNOWLEDGE THROUGH MICRO-CREDENTIALING SERP RECEIVED A FOUR-YEAR, TWO-MILLION-DOLLAR GRANT FROM IES TO PARTNER WITH THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS (DCPS), AND A RESEARCH TEAM FROM HARVARD AND THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND TO DEVELOP AND TEST AN INTERVENTION CONSISTING OF TWO MICRO-CREDENTIAL COURSES. THE FIRST COURSE WILL TARGET EFFECTIVE USE OF STUDENT TIME IN LITERACY CENTERS, A STRUCTURE FOR INSTRUCTION USED IN THE LARGE MAJORITY OF K-2 CLASSROOMS. THE SECOND COURSE WILL TARGET THE USE OF ACADEMICALLY PRODUCTIVE TALK (APT), AN INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICE THAT SUPPORTS DEEP READING COMPREHENSION AND STUDENT ENGAGEMENT BUT IS NOT WIDELY USED. BOTH COURSES ARE BEING DEVELOPED IN COLLABORATION WITH DCPS LITERACY LEADERS. DCPS K-2 CLASSROOMS FOOTAGE IS BEING COLLECTED AND WILL BE INCORPORATED INTO INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS FEATURING RESEARCHERS AND DCPS LITERACY LEADERS. COURSE CONTENT WILL BE REVISED IN RESPONSE TO FEEDBACK FROM TEACHERS IN USABILITY STUDIES CONDUCTED THROUGH AN ITERATIVE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS. SCHOOLS WILL BE RANDOMLY ASSIGNED TO PARTICIPATE IN EACH OF THE COURSES IN YEAR 3 OF THE STUDY. ELIGIBLE TEACHERS IN THE TREATMENT SCHOOLS WILL INCLUDE THOSE IN GRADES K-2 WHO ARE IN THEIR FIRST THREE YEARS OF TEACHING, AND THOSE WHO ARE IN WARNING STATUS ON THEIR TEACHER EVALUATION. THE IMPACT OF THE COURSES ON TEACHERS' PRACTICE AND STUDENT LEARNING WILL BE EVALUATED.
- $184,302 spent. ADAPTING STARI TO ACCELERATE STUDENT READING ACHIEVEMENT IN MIDDLE GRADES SERP WAS AWARDED A TWO-YEAR, 1-MILLION GRANT AS PART OF IES' LEVERAGING EVIDENCE TO ACCELERATE RECOVERY NATIONWIDE (LEARN) NETWORK, WHICH FOCUSES ON ADAPTING AND PREPARING TO SCALE EXISTING, EVIDENCE-BASED PRODUCTS THAT HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO ACCELERATE STUDENTS' LEARNING RELATIVE TO PRE- PANDEMIC RATES OF GROWTH. THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO FURTHER ADAPT AND ASSESS THE IMPACT OF THE STRATEGIC ADOLESCENT READING INTERVENTION (STARI) TO RESPOND TO THE URGENT NEED TO ACCELERATE LEARNING AMONG MIDDLE GRADES STUDENTS READING TWO OR MORE YEARS BELOW GRADE LEVEL. THE GOALS OF THIS PROJECT ARE TO IDENTIFY BARRIERS TO UPTAKE AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROGRAM, TO DEVELOP THE HIGHEST PRIORITY ADAPTATIONS THAT ADDRESS STUDENTS' NEEDS, AND TO TEST THE EFFECTS OF STARI ON STUDENTS' ACADEMIC OUTCOMES. ADAPTATIONS WILL BE PRIORITIZED ACCORDING TO A ROUGHLY ESTIMATED RATE OF RETURN, AND THE HIGHEST PRIORITY ADAPTATIONS WILL BE UNDERTAKEN WITHIN THE GRANT PERIOD TO THE EXTENT POSSIBLE. THE RESEARCH TEAM WILL ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STARI FOR ACCELERATING STUDENT READING GROWTH USING A REGRESSION DISCONTINUITY DESIGN THAT WILL ALLOW FOR COMPARISON OF STUDENTS WHO PARTICIPATE IN STARI IN ONE PARTNER DISTRICT WITH THOSE WHO DO NOT. THE TEAM WILL ALSO COMPARE CURRENT STARI STUDENTS' GROWTH TRAJECTORIES WITH READING GROWTH OF MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS IN THE SAME SCHOOLS IN 2017-18 AND 2018-19, IN ORDER TO ANALYZE STARI'S EFFECTIVENESS AS COMPARED WITH PRE- PANDEMIC RATES OF GROWTH. ADAPTING STARI TO ACCELERATE STUDENT READING ACHIEVEMENT IN MIDDLE GRADES SERP WAS AWARDED A TWO-YEAR, 1-MILLION GRANT AS PART OF IES' LEVERAGING EVIDENCE TO ACCELERATE RECOVERY NATIONWIDE (LEARN) NETWORK, WHICH FOCUSES ON ADAPTING AND PREPARING TO SCALE EXISTING, EVIDENCE-BASED PRODUCTS THAT HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO ACCELERATE STUDENTS' LEARNING RELATIVE TO PRE- PANDEMIC RATES OF GROWTH. THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO FURTHER ADAPT AND ASSESS THE IMPACT OF THE STRATEGIC ADOLESCENT READING INTERVENTION (STARI) TO RESPOND TO THE URGENT NEED TO ACCELERATE LEARNING AMONG MIDDLE GRADES STUDENTS READING TWO OR MORE YEARS BELOW GRADE LEVEL. THE GOALS OF THIS PROJECT ARE TO IDENTIFY BARRIERS TO UPTAKE AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROGRAM, TO DEVELOP THE HIGHEST PRIORITY ADAPTATIONS THAT ADDRESS STUDENTS' NEEDS, AND TO TEST THE EFFECTS OF STARI ON STUDENTS' ACADEMIC OUTCOMES. ADAPTATIONS WILL BE PRIORITIZED ACCORDING TO A ROUGHLY ESTIMATED RATE OF RETURN, AND THE HIGHEST PRIORITY ADAPTATIONS WILL BE UNDERTAKEN WITHIN THE GRANT PERIOD TO THE EXTENT POSSIBLE. THE RESEARCH TEAM WILL ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STARI FOR ACCELERATING STUDENT READING GROWTH USING A REGRESSION DISCONTINUITY DESIGN THAT WILL ALLOW FOR COMPARISON OF STUDENTS WHO PARTICIPATE IN STARI IN ONE PARTNER DISTRICT WITH THOSE WHO DO NOT. THE TEAM WILL ALSO COMPARE CURRENT STARI STUDENTS' GROWTH TRAJECTORIES WITH READING GROWTH OF MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS IN THE SAME SCHOOLS IN 2017-18 AND 2018-19, IN ORDER TO ANALYZE STARI'S EFFECTIVENESS AS COMPARED WITH PRE- PANDEMIC RATES OF GROWTH.
- $750,417 spent. 1. CENTER FOR SUCCESS FOR ENGLISH LEARNERS 2. MATH BY EXAMPLE 3. LEARNING PROGRESSIONS IN SCIENCE 4. INTERNAL COHERENCE 5. WORDGEN WEEKLY 6. NYCPS AIS PD 7. DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATIONS OF THE TRANSLATE
- 1. CENTER FOR SUCCESS FOR ENGLISH LEARNERS 2. MATH BY EXAMPLE 3. LEARNING PROGRESSIONS IN SCIENCE 4. INTERNAL COHERENCE 5. WORDGEN WEEKLY 6. NYCPS AIS PD 7. DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATIONS OF THE TRANSLATE
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated November 6, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since August 2004.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated November 4, 2026.
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